#1396 - Attorney Shutters Day Job In Favor Of Photography
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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When an antitrust attorney loses interest in her day job, she captures the moment in profitable portrait photography.
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| 0:00.0 | In the very first week of this podcast, or maybe it was week two, but very, very early |
| 0:08.9 | on, January 2017, I told the story of Oliver Asus, the Craigslist wedding photographer. |
| 0:15.5 | I also wrote about him in the side hustle book. |
| 0:17.4 | I love that story. |
| 0:18.4 | A lot of people have talked about it since then. |
| 0:20.1 | Oliver was a skilled photographer, but he had never done weddings before. |
| 0:23.9 | So he put in adding Craigslist, offering to shoot a wedding for just $250. |
| 0:28.7 | And from there, he was actually able to go on and build pretty significant side business, |
| 0:32.8 | even as he continued with his day job. |
| 0:34.3 | So he really diversified his income. |
| 0:36.2 | And actually, since then, we've heard from several people who have emulated the same |
| 0:39.0 | kind of model, followed his lead and done something similar. |
| 0:42.3 | If you'd like to see what he's working on now, he's got a new project. |
| 0:45.8 | Check it out on Instagram, Oliver underscore Asus. |
| 0:49.0 | Oliver underscore Asus. |
| 0:51.9 | So here we are, some, I don't know, 1,380 days later. |
| 0:55.3 | And in today's story, when an antitrust attorney loses interest in her day job, she captures |
| 1:00.2 | the moment in profitable portrait photography. |
| 1:03.4 | So she too is able to build a really significant side income. |
| 1:05.9 | In fact, she's able to equal the income that she has in her day job, and it ends up serving |
| 1:10.4 | as an off-ramp for her. |
| 1:12.1 | So different paths for different people. |
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